Research Interests:

Dr. Oltramari received his Ph.D. from University of Trento (Italy) in Cognitive Science and Education, in co-tutorship with the Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR). He also has a B.S. and M.S. in Philosophy of Science (University of Padua - Italy). He has worked as a research scientist at the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR) in Trento since 2000. Alessandro has been a Visiting Research Associate at Princeton University (WordNet group) in 2005 and 2006. His primary interests are in ontology, cognitive science, lexical semantics. Most of his research questions center around how cognitive mechanisms and knowledge representation "collaborate" in performing complex human tasks. Alessandro's research activity at CMU mainly deals with integrating ontologies and ACT-R models for high-level event recognition and reasoning. In general, extending cognitive architectures with large knowledge bases represents a brand new area of research in Artificial General Intelligence.